Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 9 > CODE TITLE IX > Chapter 1 > Part I - Liability for Damages

• Accumulated employee contributions: means the sum of all amounts deducted from a member's salary and paid to the fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1402
• Administrator: means the administrator of veterans' affairs of the United States or his successor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:351
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Bank stabilization works: means concrete, rock, masonry, rip-rap, or similar materials used to cover existing banks or shorelines or bulkheads located above the mean low water line, all in acres subject to erosion, to combat the same. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Benefits: means all moneys paid or payable by the United States through the veterans administration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:351
• Board: means the board of trustees of the Assessors' Retirement Fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1402
• Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
• Commercial: means built or operated for any purpose where revenue is produced or profit realized. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Curator: means any person acting as a fiduciary for an incompetent ward. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:351
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Designated beneficiary: means the person most recently designated in writing by a member to receive any benefits to which the member may be entitled. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1402
• Encroachment: means any construction, or improvement, obstacle, fill, or material which is placed upon or maintained upon state lands. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• Estate: means income on hand and assets acquired partially or wholly with income. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:351
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fund: means the Assessors' Retirement Fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1402
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
• Income: means moneys received from the veterans administration and revenue or profit from any property wholly or partially acquired therewith. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:351
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Landfill: means the direct or induced raising or elevating of any navigable waterbottom by deposit to the extent that newly emerging land results, not covered at mean low water or navigable rivers and streams or mean high water on other state properties. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Noncommercial: means built or maintained by either private citizens or nonprofit corporations for the purpose of recreation and enjoyment and not for revenue production, except for nonprofit corporations, or realizing profit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• noncompetitive lease: as used in this Chapter shall not refer to any proposed use for which the lease is granted. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1709
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Owner: means the actual owner of record. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• Person: means an individual, a partnership, a corporation, or an association. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:351
• Person: shall mean any individual, partnership, corporation, organization, or entity not including political subdivisions or state agencies. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Pier: means any structure extending channelward from the shore or bank, built upon pilings with water on both sides, with or without a sunshade or boathouse, built or maintained for the purpose of providing a berthing or mooring place for watercraft or for loading or unloading cargo or passengers onto or from watercraft or for fishing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• Proxy voting: The practice of allowing a legislator to cast a vote in committee for an absent legislator.
• public office: means any state, district, parish or municipal office, elective or appointive, or any position as member on a board or commission, elective or appointive, when the office or position is established by the constitution or laws of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:1
• Public officer: is a ny person holding a public office in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:1
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Structure: means any encroachment upon state lands, other than those which are specified as the subject matter of a particular class of permit, which is permanently attached to the public lands by pilings, or other means, including, but not limited to storage docks, houses, camps, warehouses, residences, bulkheads not proximate to the shore or bank, business establishments, dams, bridges, impoundment structures, or similar works. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Tutor: means any person acting as a fiduciary for a minor ward. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:351
• Veterans administration: means the veterans administration, its predecessors, or successors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:351
• Ward: means a beneficiary of the veterans administration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:351
• Wharf: means any structure built upon pilings extending along the shore and generally connected with the bank or shore along its length, with or without a sunshade or boathouse, built or maintained for the purpose of providing a berthing or mooring place for watercraft or for loading or unloading cargo or passengers onto or from watercraft or for fishing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704